dentified
Cicindelinae in the Mississippi Entomological
Museum at Mississippi State University, I
discovered a specimen of
Cicindela
collected in
Florida that was unfamiliar to me. After further
study and examination of the literature, I identified
it as a male
Cicindela viridicollis
Dejean, an
endemic Cuban species not previously recorded
from the United States. In order to verify my determination,
I compared the Florida specimen
with Cuban specimens of
C. viridicollis
borrowed
from the American Museum of Natural History.
The specimen from Florida is similar to those from
Cuba in all essential characters. Choate (2003) reported
the existence of this Florida specimen, but
he did not examine it or report the specimen data.